Re: Couple of //e Questions....

[Dave <Nunya@Business.net>]

In article <jeff-1DF90E.00212221102000@nntp.cts.com>, Jeff Jungblut 
<jeff@nospam.soapzone.com> wrote:


> Don't bother with CMS SCSI cards, they're crap. And, since IIe CPUs are 
> so cheap, you might as well get an extra (any condition) so you have an 
> extra power supply for when the first one blows.

The CMS SCSI cards are *not* crap!!!!   I have one and it works just 
fine.  I also have a RamFast rev B that I never use, and an Apple SCSI 
that I never use.  

The RamFasts were way overpriced when I was shopping for a SCSI card.  
I'm not paying $150 for a SCSI card for a computer, monitor,  2 hard 
drives, 4 meg ram board, PC transporter, and Imagewriter II printer that 
I got for free!  Granted, this was a *great* deal.  But it's nearly 
impossible to *give away* complete IIgs systems these days.  The days of 
$150 Apple // peripherals is *long* gone!

OTOH, the CMS card was $50.  It auto-configures the drive into as many 
32 meg partitions as needed to use the full capacity, so there's no 
complicated setup like the RamFast requires.

If you've got money to burn on a SCSI card that costs more than the 
system you're putting it in, or you want to run a CD-ROM or a Zip drive 
on a // then by all means get a RamFast.  If you just want to run hard 
drives then the CMS card's price/performance ratio can *not* be beat.

Dave